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Yeah all the little hard drives say SAS, the're very common, you get about 25 of them with every setup.
I couldn't find your SAS drive prices on your page.
here's one next to a regular hard drive.



I get 3 variations of the blades, although only two different FRU #s, one has two variants.
it would be good if I could identify what the difference is and what purpose the 3 variants have so here goes.

single blades are always FRU 43w6100's, when used as a single, it will have 2 little SAS drives with 148.8g each



double blades are FRU 40k7000's with the single one as above attatched to it. in this case it will have 3 little SAS with 74.4g each.



when the single is attached to the double, the 2 SAS are removed and an extra heat sink on.


or instead it can be like this


i'd like to really know what's going on with the different boards aventually.
so yeah, these are the servers I find most so would like to really get this model down pat, know what it all is so I can look to sell one or two complete if I can.
I don't think it would be worth sending a small package to the U.S. but i'd like to organise a container share one day.
this is the same box as I get, I think the price may be inflated a bit just for the box don't you think? doesn't even have the cables.
IBM Bladecenter H Chassis FOR THE HS21 HS22 HS22V Blade Server 8852 4XM | eBay

Originally Posted by weeeben

Immulmen, no, first off, how the heck are you my friend?
isn't that nicer?
I'm australian, it's up to me to create the market it seems as nothing like what you have in the US exsists here, boards are low or high grade, nothing else, basic priice, like peanuts.
my questions were basically to see if I should change the way I scrap servers, I understand that servers come in all shapes and sizes and I can search model numbers to get a feel
of whether the server is of value on the secondary market or just for scrapping.

it's why I came here, to discuss it further then what I know, maybe I asked some newbie questions but the main reason was to get your feel of things on your side.
through open discussion maybe something comes out that hasn't been mentioned before, so it's worth repeating things.
I'm just going to have to work out how to word my questions so it doesn't sound too newbie and it appears that I have already searched extensively.

Now that we know where you are some members may be able to help better.
The first thing that came to my mind is can you find a refiner near you? If someone in the USA is paying $13 US for ram there has to be more value in it. If you can find a refiner you can buy boards, CPU's etc and have it refined.
What is the going rate for low grade and high grade?
As to being you "friend" I don't know what your talking about but I am game. I like friends :] I did not intend to offend you.
Chris

oh thanks, wouldn't it be a shame if you had 999gb's? I mean for one measly gb, $25.
they are good prices, the're no longer just cute little hard drives but serious little hard drives.
definately have to organise a container share one day, I love american money.

oh no worries pcscrapper, I do understand that things get disgussed all the time and there's not much that hasn't been done to death.
i'll keep reading for sure, and probably talking too much too

Originally Posted by weeeben

I undertand there's a much bigger margin for us as not many actually pay for e-waste here, infact most e-waste collectors charge by the kilo to pick it up.
A tower is generally $7 to pick up as the charges are about 70c kg, a large photo copier or ups could cost $100 to have it picked up and recycled,
crt monitors are about $16 to pick up, you can imagine the cost of having e-waste picked up from a large office, goes into thousands, so it's rich pickings
if you pick it up for free.

These types of conversations always remind me of the Seinfeld episode where they are trying to recycle bottles in a different state and get the deposit. Of course you are going to find people tripping over themselves to give you escrap. YOU LIVE ON AN ISLAND, there really isn't an outlet like we have here.

There certainly is money to be made, you just would have to do a LOT of research and learn what has value and why. No one can impart this kind of knowledge on a forum. You need to learn the values, markets, shipping options, ect..

I'd especially be looking on the Gold Refining Forums to see if I could find a refiner in Aus. That would seem to be a more efficient way to get the max value out of ewaste. Just like on Sienfeld, the logistics of moving the material is going to be a big problem.

Originally Posted by weeeben

best ram price here is under $5 a pound.
high grade boards about $3 a pound, no mattter whether a mother board, finger card or a control panel from a crashed ufo, same price.
cpu's $15 a pound regardless of what they are ect, so yeah at them prices most are just hoarding it.
I undertand there's a much bigger margin for us as not many actually pay for e-waste here, infact most e-waste collectors charge by the kilo to pick it up.
A tower is generally $7 to pick up as the charges are about 70c kg, a large photo copier or ups could cost $100 to have it picked up and recycled,
crt monitors are about $16 to pick up, you can imagine the cost of having e-waste picked up from a large office, goes into thousands, so it's rich pickings
if you pick it up for free.

It seems like the prices aren't as bad as I would have imagined. You have something to work with. $3/lb for motherboards is good especially if that includes a peripheral boards as well. These make up the bulk of what you get anyway.

You might just have to process things a bit more to create more valuable material. You should see if the price is the same for finger boards with gold trimmed off. Same for the RAM. $15 is a good price for fiber cpus...just save ceramics and sell those on ebay. Gold fingers would be worth shipping, I'm sure. Or take the time to learn how to process them yourself.